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Improve reading comprehension in your classroom with our Maori Myths differentiated close reading passages and questions. This pack includes four Year Five and Six (Grade Four and Five) traditional literature passages with six pages of engaging text-dependent questions and higher-order thinking tasks. These worksheets are great for your New Zealand reading and US reading programs, as part of a reliever/substitute teacher pack, or as homework tasks. Suitable as an entry point to Polynesian history or the study on myths and legends from around the world.

These link directly to the New Zealand Curriculum, Level Three, Listening, Reading and Viewing and the USA Common Core State Standards CCSS (see the Activity Information pages for more details on the exact skills found in each activity). This resource would also be suitable for Year Seven and Eight learners as the higher order thinking activities will keep them challenged and engaged!

This resource features BOTH British/NZ and US spelling and paper sizes.

The purpose of this resource is to provide ready-to-go Maori Myth and Legend or Pūrākau passages and engaging higher order thinking questions.

This resource is jam-packed with exciting, thought-provoking activities to grab your students’ attention AND hold it. The activities begin at the lower levels of Blooms Taxonomy (Remember, Understand, Apply) and move through to the higher levels (Analyze, Evaluate, Create).

In this Maori Myths pack you will receive:

1. Four texts – all with an extended and scaffold version:

The Creation of Night and Day

Kupe and the Giant Wheke (octopus)

How Māui Discovered Fire

Rata and the Totara Tree

2. SIX corresponding NO PREP Higher Order Thinking Activities based on Blooms Taxonomy

Remember

Understand

Apply

Analyse

Evaluate

Create

Reading Comprehension Strategies included:

Making Connections

Find Facts and Details

Make Inferences

Identify the main idea

Ask and Answer Questions

Vocabulary

Sequence

Summarise

Synthesise

Compare and Contrast

Visualise

Make Predictions

3. Four Graphic Organiser Examples

Character Map

Story Map

Story Plot Mountain

Flow Diagram

4. Teacher Answer Key for applicable questions

5. Two ‘Tips For Use’ pages with ways to use this resource in your classroom.

6. Close Reading bookmarks.

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